A few years ago, as I was just beginning this journey towards the nutritional components of mitochondrial health, I gave a talk on what I had learned about nutrition to a group of pregnancy and postpartum professionals. The talk was recorded but the video had been lost until recently. Since most of my talks seem […]

Whether we like to recognize it or not, the human body is a “hybrid”, meaning that it burns fuel and uses electricity for function. I have found that trying to explain Alternative Medicine is a very difficult task and so I am going to try to do it by using an advanced analogy. I am […]

At least once a week, I have a conversation involving all the reasons why someone cannot/does not/will not consider changes to their diet a necessary step to health. Sometimes the conversation is more about the difficulties of overcoming lifelong bad habits. For those folks, change is difficult but not impossible. Sometimes the conversation involves appreciating that diet […]

One of the more common questions regarding vitamin D supplementation is whether or not to supplement with vitamin K also. In this post, I will address those questions as well as look into the roles of these vitamins in mitochondrial function.If you recall your high school chemistry, mitochondria are the powerhouses of our cells. Their […]

I live in a retirement community. In my everyday discussions with fellow residents, I find that the idea of energy metabolism as the “bottom line” of health is almost completely incomprehensible. Since my friends are all well-educated professional people, I came to the conclusion that few people really have an idea about energy. For example, […]

Who was Semmelweiss? Please read the post below to find out. We have an urgent message for both patient and physician. It isn’t really new because it started with Hippocrates in 400 BC “when he said ”let food be your medicine and medicine be your food”. He also said that no kind of treatment should […]

What is a Medical Model? In the Oxford English dictionary the word model is defined as “design to be followed, style of structure”. Then it follows that there must be a model to distinguish health from disease, that differentiates the two states of being. No disease can be treated without knowing exactly what caused it. Let […]

One of the core components of an HPV vaccine adverse reaction inevitably includes some degree of seemingly unexplainable but observable brain inflammation and white matter disintegration. The brain inflammation falls under a number of different names and diagnoses, some are regionally specific, cerebellar anomalies for example, while others demarcate a more diffuse injury including, acute […]